The board of the IGBK is elected by an assembly of delegates every three years, the assembly constisting of six delegates from each BBK, Deutscher Künstlerbund and GEDOK.
Nine persons are being elected to the board, three from each member organisation and with one person from each organisation acting as chairperson to the board.
Board members:
- Andreas Schmid (Deutscher Künstlerbund)
- Christine Düwel (GEDOK), chairperson
- Doris Weinberger (BBK)
- Iris Hoppe (GEDOK)
- Marcel Noack (BBK), chairperson and speaker of the board
- María Linares (Deutscher Künstlerbund), chairperson
- Moira Zoitl (Deutscher Künstlerbund)
- Ralf Homann (BBK)
- Susanne Meier-Faust (GEDOK)
Further delegates:
- Andrea Cochius (GEDOK)
- Doris Granz (BBK)
- Elsa Hagelskamp (GEDOK)
- Ergül Cengiz (GEDOK)
- Maria Anna Dewes (Deutscher Künstlerbund)
- Nezaket Ekici (Deutscher Künstlerbund)
- Roland Eckelt (BBK)
- Rona Rangsch (Deutscher Künstlerbund)
- Roswitha Pape (BBK)
Former chairpersons of the board
- Professor Karl Hartung (1957 - 1974)
- Professor Georg Meistermann (1957 - 1974)
- Dr. Ernst Thiele (1957 - 1974)
- Professor Hans Nagel (1974 - 1977)
- Anatol Buchholtz (1974 -1987)
- Anneliese Rall (1974 - 1977)
- Sibylle Niester (1977 - 1984)
- Professor Fred Thieler (1977 - 1984)
- Professor Thomas Grochowiak (1984 - 1987)
- Gisela Gräfin von Waldersee (1984 - 1989)
- Professor Siegfried Neuenhausen (1987 - 1990)
- Dierk Engelken (1987 - 1996)
- Dr. Renate Maßmann (1989 - 2002)
- Ulrich Pohl (1990 - 1993)
- Joachim Kettel (1993 - 1997)
- Andreas Schmid (1997 - 2002)
- Renate Christin (2002 - 2008)
- Barbara Wille (2002 - 2005)
- Frank Michael Zeidler (2005 - 2008)
- Ingrid Scheller (2008-2014)
- Prof. Ulrike Rosenbach (2014-2019)
- Andrea Knobloch (2014-2017)
- annette hollywood (2017-2020)
- Werner Schaub (1997-2020)